On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I thought I might post an update on what I am doing on dia at the moment.
>
> I have commited Lars's properties support patches for the standard
> objects in dia now, so there are a few more objects to try the properties
> stuff on.
Thanks!
> I have also changed the selector widgets for int and real properties over
> to spin buttons and the widget for enums to an option menu, so the auto
> generated properties dialogs should be fairly similar to the original
> hand coded properties dialogs.
Goodie.
> I was talking with James Cape (of the GNOME UI improvement project) about
> the dia toolbox (the current situation with a notebook containing heaps
> of sheets is becomming a problem, UI wise). His suggestion was to have a
> seperate window for each sheet. Does anyone have any comments on this?
> If we do change over to something like this, then we will probably add
> code to save which sheets were open, and where they were placed, so you
> don't have to place all the sheets every time you start dia.
We definitely need to do something about the mass of sheets. I don't think
forcing them out into seperate windows would be good -- then there'd be a
lot of window flipping. On the other hand, the ability to take a sheet out
into a seperate window is good. I could see it being some kind of
selection widget (menu, list, whatever) where you select which sheets to
load. The selection obviously must be remembered, as well as whether
they're in the toolbox or in a seperate window. By default I'd put them in
the toolbox with a tear-off strip or somesuch.
> He also thought it would be a good idea to make the buttons in a sheet
> wrap when the width of the toolbox changes. Gimp does this using the
> GtkHWrapBox widget. This widget is probably going to be included in
> gtk+-1.4, but we could include it with dia, if we want to use it.
That'd be a good idea. It looks very silly with widely stretched widgets.
-Lars
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